The Reach of the Semantic Search

June 14, 2013 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on The Reach of the Semantic Search

Remember last year when Google released the Knowledge Graph and everyone was buzzing about what that meant for the future of semantic technology? Well, now is the future; how did it affect you? This interesting topic was found on Search Engine Journal in their article, “Semantic Web: Are You Taking Advantage of Semantic Search?”

Semantic search aims to get at the real intent of the query, rather than simply matching a page to a search string. It would be easy to assume that semantic search will be superior to the word matching, index-based approach.

Google has been using basic synonyms as part of the Knowledge Graph. This thesaurus-approach to zeroing in on the real meaning is based on taxonomy principles.

For comprehensive search results from an enterprise, a solid taxonomy to support indexing is key. Access Innovations is one of a very small number of companies able to help its clients generate ISO/ANSI/NISO compliant taxonomies to produce comprehensive results.

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Data Harmony, a unit of Access Innovations, the world leader in indexing and making content findable.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.